Friday, September 3, 2010

gold is element # 35

1) My spanish name is Oro. My french name is Dior, and my japenese name is Kin. The word gold comes from the old english word geolu, which means yellows.

2) what do i look like as a pure element?




3)in my nucleus i have sevent nine protons, and one hundred and eighteen nuetrons in my nucleus. the naturally occurring isotopes i have are AU and their abindance is 100%. the average mass is 196.96.

4) gold has about seventy nine electrons and contains eleven shells of electrons.

5) my atomic radius is 135 pm

6) gold is found in nuggets or in grains of rocks. it is soft, dense, shiny, most maleable and ductile element know. it is a bright yellow color with luster that is considered attractive and used for jewelery.

7) gold is found in the continental crust and oceanic crust. gold makes up over 50 billion tones of eaths mass and is estimated to be at a value of $2,000,000,000,000,000,000.

8) three compounds that gold forms are Gold Iodide(AuI), gold bromide(AuBr), gold chloride(AuCl)

9) gold was discovered by a man named Gen. John A. Sutter in 1848 in coloma. he discovered this element while trying to build a saw-mill.

10) the jobs that gold does in human society is make wonderful looking jewelry and and it is made into blocks of gold so that when the economy goes down and the value of money goes down people can invest in a block and it will never loose its value.

11) something else that is interesting about gold is that it was the very first metal ever discovered by humans.

12) http://www.webelements.com/

gold is element # 35